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New to this forum so I thought I should share something I recently worked on. A couple weeks ago I got the itch to do something on my car again, anything really. Something that always bothered me was how the parts behind the "H" on the front grill looked kinda boring. It's filled in with boring plastic making it look kinda bleh to me, case in point:
(this is before I did the chrome delete a while back)
So I naturally thought hey if I don't like the look of it why don't I change it. I ended up talking to people I work with(auto garage) and lots of them told me why not just paint it black. I thought that was going to be too easy so naturally like the idiot I usually am I said screw that and started cutting out the backing of the H to put in a plate painted the same color as my brakes(metallic blue). Got the cuts done, not perfect mind you, but it was done and then thought to myself how will people know I've done anything to my car when I'm driving at night? Well I found a solution for that too and here's the end result:
So I'm open to what everyone thinks about it. There are a few things I want to do with it in the future such as wire it to the tail lights instead of headlights and find someone with a milling machine they'd be willing to strap my grill on to cut down the backing a bit so the blue part is a little closer to the H. All in all I'm happy with it for now.

So I naturally thought hey if I don't like the look of it why don't I change it. I ended up talking to people I work with(auto garage) and lots of them told me why not just paint it black. I thought that was going to be too easy so naturally like the idiot I usually am I said screw that and started cutting out the backing of the H to put in a plate painted the same color as my brakes(metallic blue). Got the cuts done, not perfect mind you, but it was done and then thought to myself how will people know I've done anything to my car when I'm driving at night? Well I found a solution for that too and here's the end result:




So I'm open to what everyone thinks about it. There are a few things I want to do with it in the future such as wire it to the tail lights instead of headlights and find someone with a milling machine they'd be willing to strap my grill on to cut down the backing a bit so the blue part is a little closer to the H. All in all I'm happy with it for now.